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L3viathan··on Firefox DNS-over-HTTPS
You don't have the choice of DNS server in most of the US?
L3viathan··on Paperless-NGX
I use paperless-ng to go mostly paperless, but I keep the paper:

I bought a simple self-incrementing stamp, which I stamp all incoming documents with. When adding the document to paperless-ng, I set the document's number accordingly, and finally I file the paper away purely sorted by ID (so I have a (physical) folder titled 1-101, one 102-231, etc.). When I need the original to a document, the lookup is very fast, and when I know I won't need the original ever again, I don't stamp it and tag it as "digital only" in paperless-ng.

L3viathan··on Using MailWrap on macOS Monterey
Maybe using a font with ligatures isn't great if it turns ~/ into a fancy arrow...
L3viathan··on Last Day of IKEA in Moscow
I think you misread:

> And then you have the problem that people are used to IKEA stuff being the minimum acceptable level of quality.

People see the IKEA level -- whatever that is -- as the minimum acceptable level. Anything worse than IKEA is not worth considering.

L3viathan··on SSH into private machines from anywhere using Cloudflare Tunnel
No, pull requests are not illegal, at least when done on Github, because by posting code on Github (that you are allowed to post) you grant Github and its users certain rights:

https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-o...

> By setting your repositories to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow others to view and "fork" your repositories (this means that others may make their own copies of Content from your repositories in repositories they control).

L3viathan··on Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone
I don't really understand your point, neither do I understand the change:

Maestro and V-PAY already _are_ owned by those two companies, and are debit cards. What changes with Mastercard/Visa debit?

L3viathan··on Ask HN: What do you think of the Wordle guy not monetizing it?
This happens because Slack, Twitter, ... replace emojis with pictures.
L3viathan··on Tuvalu looking at legal ways to be a state if it is submerged
The order of Malta is on a different level though: It's a sovereign entity in international law[1], the IOC, banks, etc. aren't

The only somewhat comparable thing afaik is the Holy See, but that at least has sovereignty over some land (the vatican).

[1] although this status is sometimes questioned

L3viathan··on Ask HN: How do you manage your personal documents?
I do the same, and I bought a self-incrementing stamp that I use to give (paper) documents an ID. The originals are then sorted only by that ID.

That way, I don't need to have a date for every document.

L3viathan··on Ask HN: If I disable JavaScript, am I worth less to advertisers?
> DHTML

Now there's a word I haven't heard for a decade...

L3viathan··on Man earns $22,000 making robocall companies pay for those annoying calls
Outline works: https://outline.com/pY7aaq
L3viathan··on How we built an auto-scalable Minecraft server for 1000+ players
Re (2): Wouldn't that cause wonky redstone behavior on chunk borders?
L3viathan··on How we built an auto-scalable Minecraft server for 1000+ players
Near the end of the article:

> We're planning to introduce redstone, hostile mob, and weapon support ASAP.

L3viathan··on OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October
Not with SEPA Direct Debit (which accounts for most of my online payments); I can "return" (get back) money spent like that easily via my bank.
L3viathan··on Icecream: Never use print() to debug again in Python
As was this feature.
L3viathan··on 1Password for Linux development preview
None of this is even relevant in this case, since they use (I hope) Cocoa/UIKit/whatever it's called on macOS, so there's anyways not _one_ framework used everywhere.
L3viathan··on A new and improved Twitter API
This is quite new: https://github.com/lschmelzeisen/nasty/
L3viathan··on How Did Vim Become So Popular?
> switch to command mode

Why? Just use the 'relativenumber' option and do 5j.

> the second way is more popular in vim too.

Maybe for moving down 5 lines, but (I hope) not for things like "replace the inside of the brackets with what's in my A register". Otherwise you're really better off using a different editor.

L3viathan··on Disclosure: Another macOS privacy protections bypass
No, Safari is just an easy way to exploit this bug.

In principle, it works with any app that can be convinced to run arbitrary code by changing its resources. What Safari is doing isn't wrong and wouldn't cause an issue if TCC would check the entire app, including resources.

It's true that you can't use this to copy the privileges of _any_ app, only of those that have this property.

L3viathan··on Why we won’t be supporting Sign in with Apple
You make a good point, and in general I agree, but it introduces additional headaches if I think about logging in from a non-Apple device later.
L3viathan··on Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap
Can I stop one snap from updating (for example indefinitely), while letting the rest update?
L3viathan··on mDNS, Avahi and Docker non-root containers
> If it is IPv6, it's nearly impossible to remember the address.

Why should that be the case? If you have 1000 nodes, you could organize your network such that node one gets prefix::00:01, node two gets prefix::00:02, node 138 gets prefix::01:38, etc.

There is so much space in IPv6 that you can group things more logically than was ever doable in the IPv4 world.

L3viathan··on Nushell – A New Type of Shell
This looks good in theory, but in practice many of its examples are cheating: `ps`, `ls`, etc. are something like shell builtins, so your memorized `ps` arguments won't work with this, for example.
L3viathan··on Nushell – A New Type of Shell
A friend of mine worked on a shell based on jq a few years ago: https://github.com/jq-shell/jqsh
L3viathan··on GitHub shuts off access to Aurelia repository, citing trade sanctions
What benefits does it provide over self-hosting gitlab or gitea?
L3viathan··on ICANN Allows .COM Price Increases, Gets More Money
Isn't .local reserved by RFC 6762?
L3viathan··on Pattern Matching in Ruby 2.7 (2019)
There is this: https://github.com/grantjenks/python-pattern-matching
L3viathan··on TextCaptcha: Simple Textual Captcha Challenges
Yes, that was the idea of reCAPTCHA — give tasks that are hard for computers to do to (several) humans. It started with recognizing words from books that were scanned but where OCR failed.
L3viathan··on Unicode Text Converter
For the upside down text I believe I have a more sophisticated solution that deals with diacritics correctly: https://tisch.ding.si
L3viathan··on 16-inch MacBook Pro
There's also vim-arpeggio, with which you can define mappings for simultanously held-down keys: https://github.com/kana/vim-arpeggio
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